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...company illustrates the promise and pitfalls more clearly than Edison (1999 revenues: $133 million), the leading manager of for-profit schools, which pioneered the concept of for-profits in the early 1990s. Edison has since lost about $160 million while opening 79 schools with 38,000 students in 19 states. But parents are clamoring for its product. Last week the company signed deals to open a pair of schools this fall in Rochester, N.Y., and Milwaukee, Wis., and won a five-year contract to manage two schools in North Carolina...
...growing number of companies are prepared to face that challenge. In Philadelphia, Nobel Learning Communities, which runs 145 private preschools and elementary schools in 13 states, launched its first public school, the Philadelphia Academy Charter School, in a former airplane-parts plant last fall. Nobel plans to open at least five more charter schools by the end of the year. "There is absolutely no way you'll make a profit unless you have a quality program," says A.J. Clegg, CEO of Nobel, which earned $1.6 million on revenues of $110 million last year. New wrinkles at Nobel's Philadelphia school...
Lincoln, which has a strong agricultural program, has reinvented itself as an open-admissions school. Anyone who graduates from a state-accredited high school is eligible for admission. So Lincoln is attracting white commuter students from nearby farm towns who probably couldn't get admitted anywhere else. But Lincoln president David Henson insists that despite changing demographics, "the university's culture is still driven for the most part by African-American standards." All incoming students must take courses on cultural diversity and African-American history...
...scan at a local hospital confirmed Lorri's battlefield diagnosis. Not only had the pencil pierced Nathan's heart, but it had penetrated a valve. He would need open-heart surgery--which meant Nathan had to be airlifted to the nearest cardiac surgeon and heart-lung machine, in Great Falls, 100 miles away...
Without such complications, the operation was straightforward. "We were at fairly close quarters, trying not to disturb the pencil and aggravate the injury," says Williams. But there was no infection, no contamination from pencil lead--and no permanent damage. Indeed, by last Saturday, less than three weeks after his open-heart surgery, Nathan was itching to get out of the house. "I want to go back to school," he told TIME. And parents who used to warn kids of the dangers posed to eyes by various sharp objects now have, for the foreseeable future, a new and even more frightening...